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1. Unzip it

   The archive unpacks straight to a single folder — the-long-night-azor-ahai, containing common, events, gfx, localization and a descriptor.mod. There's no outer wrapper folder to dig through.

   That folder is the whole mod. A few workshop_changelog text files ride along inside it — notes from past updates, the game ignores them, leave them be.

   What the archive does not include is the second file the launcher needs: a the-long-night-azor-ahai.mod that sits beside the folder rather than inside it. You'll make that in step 3, and it's a copy-paste.

2. Move both into your CK3 mod directory

   The folder and the .mod file go here together — the .mod file sits next to the folder, never inside it:

   Windows   Documents\Paradox Interactive\Crusader Kings III\mod\ macOS     ~/Documents/Paradox Interactive/Crusader Kings III/mod/ Linux     ~/.local/share/Paradox Interactive/Crusader Kings III/mod/

   If there's no mod folder there yet, launch CK3 once and close it, or just create the folder yourself.

3. Make the .mod file — don't skip this one

   This is the step that decides whether any of the rest works, and it is not optional. The launcher does not read the descriptor.mod inside the mod folder. It reads a separate the-long-night-azor-ahai.mod file sitting in the mod directory next to the folder — and that one isn't in the archive, because it has to describe where the mod lives on your machine.

   So make it. In your mod folder, create a new plain text file named the-long-night-azor-ahai.mod, open it in any editor — Notepad is fine — and paste this in:

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   version="1.0.15"
   picture="thumbnail.png"
   tags={
   	"Events"
   	"Warfare"
   	"Historical"
   	"Religion"
   	"Culture"
   	"Gameplay"
   }
   name="AGOT: The Long Night & Azor Ahai"
   picture="thumbnail.png"
   supported_version="1.19.0.6"
   path="mod/the-long-night-azor-ahai"

   Two details matter here. path= is relative — it just says "the the-long-night-azor-ahai folder inside mod", which is true on every machine, so use it exactly as written rather than typing a full C:\ path. And there's deliberately no remote_file_id line: that tells the launcher "this is a Steam Workshop item", which is exactly what your copy isn't, and leaving it in is a good way to watch the launcher ignore your folder or quietly replace it.

   If you took a Source code archive instead of the built one, it does contain a the-long-night-azor-ahai.mod — but it's the copy from my machine, with my folder path baked into it. Overwrite its contents with the block above and it'll behave.

   Make sure your text editor saves it as .mod and not .mod.txt — on Windows you may need to turn on file extensions to see the difference.

4. Enable it and set the load order

   Open the Paradox launcher, go to All installed mods, and the mod should be listed. Add it to a playset, then order it like this:

   • A Game of Thrones — required, and also needs a manual install if you're not on Steam
   • AGOT submods — AGOT+, Valyrian Steel, Submod Core, Nobility…
   • AGOT: The Long Night & Azor Ahai
   • Optional: Supernatural
   • If you run Supernatural: the Compatibility Patch — always last

Still stuck? The Long Night Discord is the fastest place to get it sorted — manual-install questions get answered there daily.